Year 1 - Seaside in the past

Trying to plan a unit of work for Year 1 History - Seasides in the past. Have planned to watch Magic Grandad, look at similarities and differences. Focus on bathing costumes (cross-curricular with D&T so they can make a moving Victorian man/woman with split pins) also working together to make a questionnaire to ask a family member about their seaside trips when they were young. Any other ideas?!? Am struggling to do 6 lessons. Many Thanks

Trying to plan a unit of work for Year 1 History - Seasides in the past. Have planned to watch Magic Grandad, look at similarities and differences. Focus on bathing costumes (cross-curricular with D&T so they can make a moving Victorian man/woman with split pins) also working together to make a questionnaire to ask a family member about their seaside trips when they were young. Any other ideas?!? Am struggling to do 6 lessons. Many Thanks

Not sure where you live, but here in Bedfordshire, we found that the first 2 lessons were actually geography as the kids had NO idea about the sea-side at all. They had never been and to them, a holiday is going to Pakistan to visit family.
We looked at LOTS of books and on Espresso they have that Lucy and Tom go to the seaside. We made a role play corner with sand and a water tray, buckets and spades etc. They also made collages and labelled them with the new vocab they learnt!
Due to this, we have now decided as a school that children in year 2 and 5 will go to the seaside for a day in summer term.

I have just done this toipc. We looked at souuvenirs and children bought in souvenirs that they had bought from their holidays or people had bought them. We discussed why we buy souvenirs. Then we looked at souvenir plates (a victorian souvenir) and using paper plates we dsesigned our own souvenir plates for seaside resorts today. It incorporated weaving too. The children loved doing this activity.

Hope its useful, might only keep it up there for a few days before I take it away to revise. I've also put my other history planning up there:
Yr R Myself
Yr R Nursery Rhymes
Yr 1 Grace Darling
Yr 1 Florence Nightingale
Yr 2 Seaside in the past